A Midday Hike
This morning, I went to the dentist for the first time in four months. I work from 4PM to 7PM on most days, so I had plenty of time to kill after my appointment ended at eleven.
Goodbye, Facebook
For someone who hates Facebook, I sure talk about it a lot. But I think this would be over as soon as my accounts (yes, I have multiple) are permanently deleted from their servers.
About
Hello. My name is Kat and I’m currently based in Kobe City, where I work part-time teaching kids how to read, write, and think. Whether or not I am successful at it is a question for another day.
This blog is an attempt at memorializing my mostly mundane, though at times interesting life in Japan with my husband, away from my home country, the Philippines.
I host the Ordinary People podcast and co-host BAD VIBES with my college best friend.
Photography
I take photos as a hobby, mostly of the cityscape and daily life in Kobe, and of my occasional travels to other cities in Japan. To photograph is to preserve a moment otherwise at risk of slipping into forgottenness if we relied solely on our memory to remember.
You can find my (unedited) photos on snap.as/katrina.
I. HATE. FACEBOOK.
This blog exists because I can no longer stand using Facebook. I want to share details about my life on a platform that would neither threaten my online privacy and identity, nor profit from holding my attention.
I did say in a previous entry that I despise social media. Facebook is at the very top of that list. That wretched company should be held accountable for allowing fake news and dangerous propaganda to proliferate on their platform.
Autumn Mornings
For someone who grew up in a tropical country, I sure cannot stand hot weather. I have hyperhidrosis, so hot or cold, I sweat, but you can imagine just how much worse it is with high temperatures and humidity. It's the worst.
How do you want to be remembered?
I feel like I’ve written about this before. On a blog, on paper. Or maybe I was asked by a friend, or a stranger, perhaps, and I gave an earnest answer.
What is sadder: forgetting or remembering?
Hello, I'm alive.
I've been wanting to write again, but have only done so in my journals. I wanted to revive my old Wordpress blog, but it had stuff I didn't want to bother with anymore, and Wordpress has become a lot more complicated to use. I really am getting old.